Free speech includes lying.

True, but never, ever fun!

... like the dot com crash.

That, and "Radical-Left".

"$Coding_Language" will make coding fun!

Since, but not including COBOL.

It's fun if it makes coding it fun for you. And it scratches your itch. But no one language is either fun, nor is suitable for all use cases.

Now, get off my lawn.

The Z80 was a pretty easy to learn system. I picked it up as a child wanting to make games on my Amstrad computer, the memory addresing was, imho, easier for a young mind to grasp than the 6510 , though perhaps I'd see that as the other way around had I learned on a 6510 first.

It is kind of sad in a way to see the Z80s pass into history, but lets face it, you'd feel constrained on a toaster controller with one, in 2026. Though thats probably due to modern coders being a lot less disciplined than the old school for whom 8 bit / 64k (or less!) was the simple reality of coding.

OK, which particular aspect of the LLM learning do you think doesn't exist in the human brain? Backprop exists (and the other training methods the brain uses has similar effects), embeddings more or less exists and seems to be very similar to the LLM embeddings (shown by brain activation in various areas linearly matching with embeddings) - see e.g. High-level visual representations in the human brain are aligned with large language models (Adrien Doerig et al, 2025), and speech/text generation by humans has similar error patterns as for LLMs.

They obviously don't learn in the EXACT same way, but there's also clearly a lot of bits that are the same, and I'm fairly sure nobody knows how much is similar yet, particularly not weighted by importance.
 

Why would you give an idiot savant access to delete your files?

Sometimes I wake up and start doing new science. But usually I just roll over and go back to sleep.

"President Clarkson, reports from NASA indicate you've already met the alien ambassador form Flembleblarx. What can you tell us about your first contact?"

"The aliens.......... well...... lets just say they fuck"

*wipes alien splooge off jacket*

"I mean they really get into it. Fists, spatulas, mesh probes. Antigrav. You name it.... Just..... frisky space boys"

So far, experiments have shown that one cannot expect people to remain as diligent after extended periods of LLM use.

This is absolutely a problem if you work in a shitty sweatshop that forces you to be a sin eater for robot code.

The way we do it is, the tools are available, but you're not required to use them in any specific way or really, at all if you don't want to. You do, of course, have to get your work done and be responsible for your code. We have a spectrum of use, from all-in cascades of agents through folks who use it as little more than a search engine.

We had a few incidents where people were caught out and couldn't explain why their code did what it did, but that seemed to be enough to warn the rest; that hasn't happened in a while. I don't see our "velocity" stats, so I don't know if/to what extent the robots are speeding us up, but knowing our bean counters we wouldn't be maintaining our spend at this point if there weren't a visible bottom-line result. I do see our bug and incident metrics, which haven't seen any impact from LLM use.

If you work in a shithole, yeah, they're going to burn you out. But that's about sociopathic management, not the robot. They'd wear you down a different way if LLMs didn't exist.

I just figured fleecing rubes was considered the retirement plan for this band of raiders and whores.

Dude's crime wasn't playing the inside, it was getting caught while not having enough dirt on the boss to make him care.

Well, yes. For many years, presidential candidates, both Democratic and Republican, referred to the United States as "the indispensible nation". And my reaction was always, "Doesn't that mean the US is a single point of failure for civilization?"

We are currently performing an experiment which addresses this question: can the US enjoy the benefits of soft power without the cost? That's the whole point of obeying *norms*. No individual force is going to punish you if you are treacherous, mercurial, foul-mouthed, disrespectful and generally unpredictable. Everyone will punish you.

I think an inevitable cost of this experiment will be that the world will decide that the US can't be a single point of failure for global democracy any longer. In many ways, that's something that will be good for us. But it's also going to cost us in painful ways. When the world decides to move away from the dollar as the international reserve currency, you will see both inflation and higher interest rates on everything from credit cards to mortgages, to business loans that will offset the export advantages. We will need *more* business investment to shift the economy to producing low value goods again, so the transition will be rocky.

He's creating a "middle class" - they will get the info after the regular insiders, but before hoi polloi.

He should have thought of selling multiple levels of higher tiers.

For a small fee you can get your bullshit before everyone else.